Kristen Stewart - IMDb IMDb 31 December 2016 6:09 PM, UTC NEWS Actress | Soundtrack | Director Though most famous for her role as Isabella "Bella" Swan in The Twilight (2008) Saga, Kristen Stewart has been a working actor since her early years in Los Angeles, California, where she was born. Her parents, John Stewart and Jules Stewart , both work in film and television. Her mother is Australian. The family includes three boys, her older ... See full bio » Born: a list of 30 people created 15 Apr 2012 a list of 26 people created 29 Mar 2013 a list of 33 people created 13 May 2013 a list of 47 people created 11 months ago a list of 37 people created 10 months ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Kristen Stewart's work have you seen? User Polls 45 wins & 55 nominations.

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See more » Trivia: Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair "Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010", with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named #1 on Forbes magazine's list of "Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck". See more » Trademark: Often plays characters who are deeply troubled or have suffered an emotional trauma Nickname: Bella Swan Outfits From The Twilight Movies, How To Dress Like Bella | Gurl.com 15 Ways to Dress Like Bella Swan From Every Twilight Movie Thursday, November 15, 2012 by Jessica Booth In celebration of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (which comes out this Friday!), I’ve decided to put together a few ways that you can look like Bella Swan. Okay, so maybe I can’t put Robert Pattinson’s arms around your waist or get Taylor Lautner to stare at your with puppy-dog eyes, but I can tell you wear you can buy Bella Swan’s outfits – or at least clothes that are similar..

One could argue that Bella Swan, the tortured, love-struck star in the Twilight series played by Kristen Stewart, doesn’t have much fashion sense. To those people, I say, comfy clothes can be stylish too! Okay, so maybe Bella is more known for her love of neutral colored hoodies and worn-in jeans rather than for her fashion-forward designer clothing, but who cares? Her look can easily be converted into comfy chic, and I’ve got proof of that below. Check out 15 ways to look like Bella from the last four Twilight movies – just add a pretty pout and you’re good to go! And if you want any more info on the outfits, click on the images and you’ll get it! Twilight (2008) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.

Director: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 37 titles created 12 May 2012 a list of 42 titles created 04 Aug 2013 a list of 29 titles created 18 Apr 2015 a list of 44 titles created 3 months ago a list of 30 images created 1 month ago Search for " Twilight " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 28 wins & 16 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edward leaves Bella after an attack that nearly claimed her life, and in her depression she falls into yet another paranormal relationship - this time with werewolf Jacob Black.

Director: Chris Weitz As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob. Director: David Slade After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi. Director: Bill Condon The Quileutes close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses a threat to the Wolf Pack and the towns people of Forks. Director: Bill Condon In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen. Director: Rupert Sanders Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer, Nora. Director: Anne Fletcher Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.

Director: Gary Ross A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love. Director: Daniel Barnz Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure. Director: Catherine Hardwicke 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late. Director: Neil Burger A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. Director: James Cameron Romantic sparks occur between two dance students from different backgrounds at the Maryland School of the Arts. Director: Jon M. Chu Edit Storyline Bella Swan has always been a little bit different.

Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he... Written by Summit entertainment When you can live forever what do you live for?

See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 21 November 2008 (USA) See more » Also Known As: $69,637,740 (USA) (21 November 2008) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Eric in the movie is a combination of the characters Eric Yorkie and Ben Cheney from the book. See more » Goofs Throughout the film, dark roots appear and disappear from Rosalie's hair. See more » Quotes [first lines] Isabella Swan : [voiceover] I'd never given much thought to how I would die... But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go. Spoofed in 11/11/11 (2011) See more » Soundtracks Performed by Perry Farrell , Daniel Newman (uncredited), Etty Lau Farrell I'll Hit You Back First Music (BMI) So bad it's ALMOST good.

21 November 2008 | by The_Amazing_Spy_Rises (United States) – See all my reviews NOTE: This review is the fair and unbiased opinion of someone with extremely little knowledge of the Twilight series. I watched the movie with a few die hard fans who I talked to after the movie, and I will work some of their thoughts into the review. Another much loved book series has been brought to life in the form of Twilight, which despite having nothing in common with the Harry Potter series, will undoubtedly draw comparisons because of the furor and craze surrounding it. The main difference between the two, however, is that the Harry Potter films are generally good and solid films. Twilight, despite having done a couple things right, is not. As a story, I will admit, Twilight is very catchy and interesting. Now I see what all the hype is about. If I was a young girl, I would go nuts over this stuff too. It's not just a vampire and a human falling in love with each other, but because of the two leads, it's one of the best on screen romances of the decade.

This, however, is severely hurt by the fact that Twilight boasts easily some of the worst writing and editing I've ever seen. Let's not forget about the horrid VFX and pasty makeup, either. It's one of the cheesiest films of the year, and can definitely be put in the category of "so bad it's ALMOST good". Yes, I just invented that category. The 'allure' of the film appears to be the character played by Robert Pattinson, who ironically was previously known for his role in the Harry Potter series. Pattinson succeeded there and he more than succeeds again, as he more than fit the bill for what he needed to do with the character. Most actors would believe the only requirement of the character is to be good looking, but Pattinson takes it a step further and makes Edward Cullen very likable, trustworthy, and in the end, a good hero for the audience. Kristen Stewart is sort of the queen of not showing facial expressions, so she's perfect for the role of the awkward teen Bella Swann. However, there were sometimes where her lack of emotion bothered me. Our supporting players...Well, none of them are noteworthy like Pattinson is.

The villain of the film is lame, cheesy, and played by an actor I can't take seriously. Nikki Reed is probably the best as Rosalie, Edward's 'sister', and the antagonistic vibe felt from her adds a different side to the movie. Okay, I don't really know what possessed the writer of this screenplay to make it so horrible (was it the source material?), because the dialog is just so bad that I laughed at serious moments. There's a lot of intentional humor, mostly in the beginning when Bella and Edward feel like awkward teens in love. I guess the movie moved along okay, because I wasn't bored at all. I was either laughing at how stupid the dialog was, laughing at some of the mildly funny jokes, or getting pulled in by the electric chemistry between Stewart and Pattinson. That, folks, is the reason most people will be able to sit through this movie. The chemistry between the two leads, romantically and sexually, is amazing. In this respect, Pattinson and Stewart are perfectly cast and it makes me wonder if they could end up together in real life some day. I was very surprised by how much I liked seeing their one on one scenes, as cheesy and bad as the VFX and editing are.

As far as these visual effects go, I've seen a few vampire movies in my day. I'm going to assume director Catherine Hardwicke has seen a few. Well, she needs to watch a few more. Her fight scenes are horribly choreographed, terribly shot, and lack the intensity required to successfully rouse her audience. I could almost notice the wires the actors flew across on. I noticed a ton of errors with the editing as well, such as basic stuff like mouths moving and no words coming out, and words coming out when no mouths were moving. The fight scene at the end has wicked bad editing too, as the sound mixing also suffers as well. All in all, with Twilight, as bad a movie as it may be, I couldn't help but stay interested in it because of the electric chemistry between the leads. That alone kept me in the seat the whole time. It is technically one of the worst films of the year, but the entertainment factor in the above respect keeps it out of the company of movies like Disaster Movie and College.

I was actually lucky to see it with some of the fans of the book, and all of them (5) described the movie as a 'disappointment' and that the film went 'half way' with some subplots, either starting and dropping them, or randomly starting them halfway through an individual subplot. They were not happy at all with this movie, but agreed on one thing: Robert Pattinson was the perfect Edward Cullen. I'll agree with them on all those points and say that Twilight is exactly what I thought it would be: so bad it's ALMOST good. 1,105 of 1,755 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes 14 Celebrities You Didn't Know Auditioned For Twilight | Teen.com ADVERTISEMENT 1. Dave Franco Yep, James Franco's little bro auditioned for the role of Edward. (Obviously, he didn't get the part.) Wenn 2. Jamie Campbell Bower Jamie originally tried out for the part of Edward, but they must have liked him because he ended up scoring the role of Caius in New Moon. Wenn 3.

Michelle Trachtenberg You know her has Georgina from Gossip Girl, but she was considered for the part of Bella. Wenn This British actor nearly played the part of Aro in New Moon. Wenn 5. Dustin Milligan You probably know him best from 90210 but he could have been too bust playing Edward Cullen to be part of the CW show. Too bad he didn't actually get cast! Getty Images Vanessa could have ended up playing Leah Clearwater, but she didn't get the part. Wenn 7. Henry Cavill Now, Henry didn't technically audition for the tole, but he was Stephenie Meyers' number one choice to play Edward. However at 25, he was just a bit too old to play the high schooler. We think it worked out OK for him considering he's playing Superman now. Wenn Similar to Henry, Emily was actually Stephenie's number one choice for Bella. Wenn 9. Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer auditioned for the role of Bella, but as you can probably tell, she didn't end up getting the part.

It's something she's happy about though as she was quoted as saying, “I remember when the first movie came out, seeing Kristen Stewart on the red carpet and getting papped wherever she went. I’d had no idea Twilight would be such a big deal. For me, and assuming for her, it was just another audition. Then it turned into this whole other thing.” Wenn 10. Lucy Hale We know and love Lucy as Aria on Pretty Little Liars, but she auditioned for the role of Jane in New Moon. Getty Images 11. Lily Collins Though she didn't end up getting the part of Bella, she did get to star in another YA franchise -- The Mortal Instruments She opened up about the audition and said: "Yeah, one of my first auditions actually was for Twilight which is really funny now thinking about it. ... I think every young actor or actress in Hollywood starts to read some of the same material but I think everything happens for a reason and everyone who gets the roles they get were meant to. I’m a firm believer in that.”. Wenn Shiloh originally auditioned for the role of Edward. Wenn Sara was considered to play Bella. Wenn 14.

Francis Bean Cobain According to IMDB, Courtney Love's daughter "turned down the chance to audition for the role of Bella Swan because she did not like the script." Twitter Lily Collins As Bella Swan — Kristen Stewart Had Competition For ‘Twilight’ Role - Hollywood Life 3 Photos The 24-year-old actress discussed her beginnings as an actress in a new interview and revealed that one of her very first auditions was for ‘Twilight!’ Can you even imagine her as Bella? In a new interview, Lily Collins admitted that while she was trying to get her acting career off the ground she actually auditioned for the role of Bella Swan in Twilight. Of course, she was beaten out by Kristen Stewart , but we wonder if Lily would have made an even better Bella! Lily Collins Auditioned For Bella Swan Lily told Crave, “Yeah, one of my first auditions actually was for Twilight which is really funny now thinking about it.” She definitely looks the part with her dark hair, red lips, and pale skin. However, it’s hard — no, impossible — to imagine anyone else but K-Stew caught up in a love triangle with Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner . She continued, “This was many years ago.

I was new on the scene, new at auditioning and it was always kind of this, ‘What’s going to happen?’ I think every young actor or actress in Hollywood starts to read some of the same material but I think everything happens for a reason and everyone who gets the roles they get were meant to. I’m a firm believer in that. Lily Collins Plays A Half Angel Demon Slayer Though she never got to play Bella, Lily will be joined by Twilight‘s Jamie Campbell-Bower in her latest film , The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The supernatural blockbuster is set to be released on August 23. In the movie, she plays a half angel demon slayer in the flick, which is a bit of a departure from her role as Snow White. We’re excited to see her in a darker role, and who knows, maybe this could be the next Twilight! What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do you think Lily would have been a better Bella? Ciao, Bella: Post-'Twilight,' Kristen Stewart Continues to Astound | Village Voice Ciao, Bella: Post-'Twilight,' Kristen Stewart Continues to Astound Or sign in with a social account: FACEBOOK GOOGLE + TWITTER YAHOO!

Don't have an account yet? Sign Up › Connect. Discover. Share. Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Enter your email or sign up with a social account to get started FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ YAHOO! Don't have an account yet? Sign Up › Ciao, Bella: Post-'Twilight,' Kristen Stewart Continues to Astound Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 8:15 a.m. Print Article She's still big; it's the pictures that are getting smaller. Kristen Stewart, who became one of the most recognizable humans in the world for playing Bella Swan, the tender, tremulous teenage vampire-lover in the massively successful Twilight franchise, has lately been showing off her talents in a string of more modest productions. In the almost four years since the fifth and final installment of the Twilight saga was released, the actress has scrupulously avoided blockbusters, instead headlining and taking supporting roles in auteurist films made on either side of the Atlantic.

Her range post-Bella was demonstrated last month at Cannes, where two disparate projects premiered within days of each other: Woody Allen's 1930s-set Café Society , in which she plays a bobby-socked movie studio secretary caught in a love triangle, and Olivier Assayas's resolutely of-this-moment Personal Shopper , a shape-shifting ghost story that features the actress in nearly every frame. They are just two Stewart films scheduled for release this year: Café Society opens July 15, the same day as Drake Doremus's sci-fi romance Equals; Personal Shopper bows in theaters later in 2016, along with Kelly Reichardt's ensemble drama Certain Women. Even those who (critics and civilian moviegoers alike) dismissed the actress's work in the bloodsucker juggernaut would have to be impressed by this latest career efflorescence. For those of us who were immediately taken with her portrayal of Bella — as I was on a miserable Saturday afternoon in late November 2008 at a Chelsea multiplex, where I saw the inaugural Twilight movie — Stewart's recent roles confirm what's been evident all along: that she is one of her generation's most quicksilver performers.

Crucially, this electrifying mutability is rooted in her genius at communicating, both onscreen and off-, a sexuality that is itself ever-changing: from extremely heteronormative to explicitly sapphic and all libidinal leanings in between. Jodie fosters a mini-butch in Panic Room. Courtesy Columbia Pictures/Photofest Stewart's gifts were apparent several years before Twilight's first gleaming. Born in 1990 in Los Angeles to parents who work behind the scenes in the entertainment industry — her father is a stage manager, her mother a script supervisor and producer — Stewart had her breakthrough role in David Fincher's Panic Room (2002), released shortly before her twelfth birthday. In this Upper West Side home invasion thriller, she plays Sarah, a scooter-riding, Sid Vicious–adoring tomboy and the only child of Jodie Foster's Meg, recently divorced from a 1 percenter husband.

Stewart's resemblance to Foster is uncanny: Not only does she have the same wide, light-colored eyes and heart-shaped face as her elder, but Stewart is also a dead ringer for Foster during the mid-Seventies height of her kid-performer years (the era of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, etc.). The pre-teen toughie Stewart so confidently portrays in Panic Room isn't entirely invulnerable — she's diabetic. But, no matter how low her blood sugar, Sarah still has the smarts to use one of her insulin syringes to attack the worst of the guys who've been terrorizing her and her ma. Stewart's mien and mettle in Fincher's movie recall Foster's from three decades earlier — a soft-butch atavism that's the first of many queer signifiers in Stewart's career, more on which in a moment. Bella Swan is an ocean between shallows in the Twilight saga.

Courtesy Summit Entertainment/Photofest Among her fourteen other ante-Bella features, Into the Wild (2007), directed by Sean Penn, best showcases the skill that the actress would repeatedly demonstrate in the Twilight pentalogy: a superb understanding of how to remind viewers of all ages of the chaotic churn of adolescent emotion and desire. In only a handful of scenes in Penn's movie, Stewart — as Tracy Tatro, a peewee Joni Mitchell living in a trailer park in dusty Imperial Valley, California — slinks with burgeoning sexual confidence. "That poor girl is about ready to vault herself onto a fence post," one character says while Tracy stares hungrily at the twentysomething adventurer played by Emile Hirsch. Splayed provocatively on her bed in a white tee and panties, the sixteen-year-old boldly invites him to join her. Related Stories In 'Café Society,' Allen Finds a Story Worth Telling — But Mostly Tells Another One Undeniably, Tracy enjoys a carnal freedom that Bella doesn't in the Twilight films, which, despite their floridly supernatural elements, push a retrograde purity-ring philosophy.

Still, the depths of uncontainable yearning Stewart conveys in these movies (at least the first four) is all the more impressive considering the lesser skills of her co-stars Robert Pattinson, as the pallid vampire she weds and procreates with, and Taylor Lautner, the teen wolf Bella loves...like a brother. The Twilight franchise's advancement of a conservative agenda of one (undead) man, one woman might have been boosted by the fact that Stewart and Pattinson were dating for much of the series' 2008–12 run. But throughout these years, the actress, refusing to be pigeonholed, signed up for projects that complicated the swoony, boy-crazy, high-femme virgin character that was bringing in box office billions. As Joan Jett in The Runaways (2010), Floria Sigismondi's lush recounting of the rise and fall of the jailbait Seventies rock group, Stewart no longer slinks — she swaggers, strutting not for guys but for girls. She plays the teenage guitarist like a heat-seeking missile, one aimed at Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), the bandmate she's besotted with.

Bathed in cherry-bomb-red light, these two share a sultry kiss, the lip-lock initiated by Jett. Stewart's brilliant baby-dyke bravado in The Runaways, her unabashed lustfulness, reveals an appetite that Twilight tamped down (if not outright forbade). Since that franchise concluded, her characters' desires, sometimes unconventional, have often been expressed in more oblique, though no less stirring, ways. She throbs as Runaways’ black-hearted baby-dyke. Courtesy Apparition/Photofest A rare age-appropriate romance in Woody Allen’s Café Society Courtesy Sabrina Lantos "Dare I kiss you?" big-shot Hollywood talent agent Phil Stern (Steve Carell) asks his employee and mistress, the felicitously named Veronica "Vonnie" Sibyl (Stewart), in Allen's Café Society. "Dare you not?" is her reply, Stewart's intoxicating delivery suggesting both raw need and cool self-assurance. The film may be another of Allen's creaky nostalgia vehicles, but once again, Stewart's incandescence cannot be dimmed by inferior material.

She quite literally glows when we first see her character: Vonnie is enhaloed by sunlight after stepping into Phil's office, where she is introduced to her boss's nephew, New York transplant Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg, in his third film with Stewart), who will soon become her boyfriend. Stewart's steno-pool sophisticate is the luminous orb around which these men revolve, and the sole source of fire in the film. Who else, by the sheer power of sexual magnetism, could make Eisenberg's twitchy worrywart character, a clear stand-in for Allen, seem like a viable love interest? "I can't imagine what it would be like to be larger than life," Bobby tells his beloved after they take in a Joan Crawford movie. "I think I'd be happier being life-sized," Vonnie says, a response made all the richer by the fact that it's spoken by an actress who regularly appeared on IMAX screens not long ago. But the filmmaker with whom Stewart has most ingeniously refracted — queered, in other words — her real-life career is Olivier Assayas.

In Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), the first of her two collaborations to date with the Paris-based auteur, she plays Valentine, the bespectacled personal assistant to Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), an internationally renowned forty-year-old star of stage and screen. There's a perverse thrill in watching Stewart, long an A-lister, so astutely inhabit the role of helpmate. Though deferential, Valentine doesn't hesitate to challenge Maria, delivering an eloquent defense of blockbusters to her employer when she slams industrial cinema — the very kind of moviemaking that made Stewart a star. Despite being boss and underling, Maria and Valentine have a relationship that is constantly in flux, the lines between the personal and the professional often blurred. That's especially the case when the two move into a secluded house in Sils Maria, a village in the Swiss Alps, where Maria begins to prepare for a particularly fraught stage revival.

Their psychic enmeshment deepens during the weeks that Valentine runs lines with her employer, erotic suspense rising from Stewart's intricately calibrated push-pull with her co-star, a battle of wills mixed with affection in which top/bottom, sub/dom are positions that are never quite fixed. While their intimacy never extends to the physical, one scene strongly hints at the possibility before fading to black. Stewart favors Rick Moranis–chic in the ectoplasmic Personal Shopper. Courtesy Carole Bethuel There's even less stability in Assayas's forthcoming Personal Shopper, an outré yet unexpectedly touching tale of luxury brands and ectoplasm. Here, Stewart's character, Maureen, in the title profession, is demoted to an even lowlier celebrity adjutant. A studiously disheveled American temporarily in Paris (one whose sartorial style matches Stewart's boho-butch rags in several paparazzi shots over the past few years), Maureen hopes to make contact with her recently deceased twin brother, who possessed the same paranormal gifts she has.

When not receiving signals from the dead, she dashes from one high-end shop to the next for the fashion-fascist boss she says she despises, Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten). But does she really? Dropping off some Cartier at Kyra's empty luxe dwelling, the assistant tries on one of her employer's haute-couture frocks (not unlike the ones Stewart has been modeling in a recent Chanel print campaign). This charged, forbidden act is made even more lubricious when Maureen begins to masturbate in Kyra's bed. The actress loses herself in the scene's lurid hall of mirrors, succumbing to the irony of playing a character who gets turned on by pretending to be, however briefly, someone she's not — that is, by acting. The frisson is multiplied as we watch Stewart — who, in real life, must always be on guard against stalkers and other predators — portray someone who thrills at violating the rules and sanctum of her V.I.P. boss. The smallest role Stewart has in a film in this annus mirabilis is the most evocative.

In Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, which the writer-director adapted from short stories in Maile Meloy's 2009 collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, she plays fledgling Montana lawyer Beth Travis in one of the movie's three main vignettes. Anxious about her student loans, Beth has taken a part-time job teaching an adult education evening class on law — a twice-a-week gig that's an eight-hour round-trip commute. Bedecked in ill-fitting cotton/poly-blend cardigans and skirts, Stewart's attorney exudes crippling self-doubt. But one student — ranch hand Jamie (Lily Gladstone) — is immediately smitten with her new teacher, suggesting they go to a diner afterward simply so she can sit across from Beth and hang on her every word. Significantly, Reichardt has switched the genders of the crushed-out pupil; in Meloy's book, the enamored cowpoke is a man named Chet. Is this reversal a sly acknowledgment of Stewart's own strange avowal/disavowal of her recently reported same-sex relationships?

In the September 2015 issue of Nylon, the actress said, "If you feel like you really want to define yourself, and you have the ability to articulate those parameters and that in itself defines you, then do it. But I am an actress, man. I live in the fucking ambiguity of this life and I love it. I don't feel like it would be true for me to be like, 'I'm coming out!' No, I do a job. Until I decide that I'm starting a foundation or that I have some perspective or opinion that other people should be receiving...I don't. I'm just a kid making movies." Her response may be evasive, yet it does nothing to diminish her incontrovertible allure on screen. She's not a kid (she turned 26 in April), but she is still making movies — a dizzying assortment of them, each one further proof of her fearlessness and infinite talent, and each unleashing all kinds of fantasies from spectators of all genders and sexualities. All ways is the only way we want it.

Character profile for Bella Swan from Twilight (Twilight, #1) (page 1) Isabella Marie Swan [close] Isabella Marie Swan Bella Swan is the main protagonist of the Twilight series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The Twilight Saga, which consists of the novels Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, is primarily narrated from Bella's point of view. In Twilight, Bella moves to her father's home in Forks, Washington, meets the mysterious Cullen family, and falls in love with Edward Cullen. In the 2008 Twilight film, Bella is played by actress Kristen Stewart. [close] Bella Swan is the main protagonist of the Twilight series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The Twilight Saga, which consists of the novels Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, is primarily narrated from Bella's point of view. In Twilight, Bella moves to her father's home in Forks, Washington, meets the mysterious Cullen family, and falls in love with Edward Cullen. In the 2008 Twilight film, Bella is played by actress Kristen Stewart. edit descriptions of this character

Question: Who plays Bella Swan in the Twilight films?
Answer: KRISTEN STEWART